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Try to understand the essence of the problem and the whole thing makes perfect sense. Problem: many spontaneous moments are missed because the phone is not imm
by TAForObvReasons 10y ago
Try to understand the essence of the problem and the whole thing makes perfect sense.
Problem: many spontaneous moments are missed because the phone is not immediately accessible. The phone is in the pocket and it takes seconds to dig out the phone and switch to the camera app, and by that time I missed the moment.
Solution: put a camera at line of sight. Make it super simple to capture.
When you phrase it as a camera you mount to your head, it sounds super creepy. The sunglass is a natural vehicle for the camera since most people have sunglasses and wear them when it is sunny outside. It allows for validation testing of the idea, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a prescription version if the demand is there.
- dingaling 10y ago> Solution: put a camera at line of sight. Make it super simple to capture. But these are sunglasses which are unlikely to be worn much indoors. So one might still have to fumble in a bag for the glasses, don them to put the camera in line of sight and then take a snap. What really irks me is the overloading of the term 'spectacles'. These are absolutely not spectacles as commonly understood: "lenses to help a person's sight". But henceforth, any time anyone wants to search for spectacles they'll have to include terms to exclude Snapchat's gadget. Surely they could have saved some of the money they spent on buying spectacles.com and invented a unique name. Snapticles? ( Google lists four hits for that word right now ).
- richardboegli 10y ago"lenses to help a person's sight" But, if the lenses people see the world through is Snapchat then this makes perfect sense.
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- phamilton 10y agoA Spectacle is also a performance or something worth watching. One could say many moments in our lives are spectacles that few people see, and recording those would help us share. It's really not a bad name.
- fma 10y agoWhy not just enjoy the spontaneous moment rather than fiddling with a phone or press a button on the glasses. The odds of looking back through all your archived 10 second video and reliving the spontaneous moment is pretty nill.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoBecause thats not how narcissism works. Social media is everyone's highlight reel; enjoying the moment to yourself doesn't create envy or FOMO in your social circles.
- joshumax 10y agoHey, as a glass owner, maybe this will at least give privacy advocates something else to yell at for a change...
- chris_7 10y agoWell, it's especially difficult when the video self-destructs within 24 hours.
- KC8ZKF 10y agoProblem: many spontaneous moments are missed because people feel compelled to "share" them. Solution: enjoy the spontaneous moment.